
Hummert’s Highest Quality Vegetable SEEDS for Florists | 

VEGETABLE SEEDS 
Prices f.o.b. St. Louis. 
One of the most profitable spring crops for the green- 
house or hotbed plant is seedling vegetable plants for 
ome gardens. We are offering vegetable seeds only in 
the best standard varieties for market and home garden. 
Should you desire any variety not listed, please write. 
ASPARAGUS 
Mary Washington. (Rust-proof.) Undoubtedly the fin- 
est rust-resistant variety grown. Shoots thick: heavy 
yee of fine quality. Oz., 10c; 14 lb., 50c; 1 Ib., 
BUSH BEANS, GREEN POD 
Plant seed when danger of frost is past and the soil 
1s quite warm, in rows 18 to 30 in. apart for hand culti- 
vation or 214 to 3 ft. apart for field cultivation. Make 
furrows about 2 in. deep and space the beans 2 to 3 in. 
apart in the row. 
1 Ib. will plant 100 ft. of row. 
Bountiful Stringless. 48 days. This is the best flat- 
podded stringless variety. The light green pods are 
614 to 7 inches long. 
Giant Stringless Green Pod. Meaty, round, slim, slightly 
curved, brittle and stringless, produces heavy crops 
anywhere. 
Stringless Green Pod. 52 days. A very desirable dwarf. 
round, green-podded snap bean, largely grown for 
the market. 
Tendergreen Stringless. 56 days. A very high quality 
green-podded sort, of the finest quality. Pods are 
perfectly round. 
Large pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 20c; 1 Ib.. 35c; 10 Ibs., $3.00. 
BUSH WAX BEANS 
Golden Wax. 48 days. A splendid home garden va- 
riety; also much used for canning. 
Pencil Pod Wax. 52 days. The pods average 5 to 6 
inches in length. a round-podded wax variety: they 
are very solid, meaty and tender. 
Davis Stringless Wax. 48 days. Plant large and thrifty. 
heavily productive over long period. Pods handsome 
bright yellow, 514 to 6 inches long. 
Above 3 Varieties: Large pkt., 10c; 16 Ib., 25c; 
1 Ib... 40c: 5lbs.. $1.75. 
BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima. 80 days. Grows 10 to 
30 inches; handsome large pods. 
Fordhook Bush Lima. Large seeded bush lima of ex- 
cellent flavor. 
Henderson’s Bush Lima. 74 days. Produces enormous 
crops. Small seeded—sure to produce under any 
conditions. 
Large pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 25c; 1 Ib., 45¢: 5 Ihs.. 7.00. 

Early Wonder Beet 
Stringless a 
Green Pod 

Prices quoted are subject to change 
POLE BEANS 
One pound will plant 200 hills. 
Kentucky Wonder, Old Homestead. 65 days. 
celled for home and market garden. 
St. Louis Perfection. 70 days. An early maturing, 
green-podded, white-seeded pole sort, desirable for 
snaps and unsurpassed in its class as green shell beans. 
The pods are round. 
Large pkt., 10c; 15 Ib., 25c; 1 lb., 40c; 5 Ibs., $1.75. 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
King of the Garden. 84 days. One of the best pole 
limas. large leaved, good climber. Pods about 41% 
to 514 inches long. Large pkt., 10c; 146 Ib.. 25c; 
1 Ib.. 45c; 5 Ibs., $2.00. 
SOUP BEANS 
Grown mostly for dried beans for winter use. 
Great Northern or Large Navy. Splendid field bean, 
excellent flavor, cooks rapidly, fine producer. 
Red Kidney. The old-fashioned baking bean. Rich in 
flavor. Many uses. 
Large pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 15c; 1 lb., 25c; 5 Ibs., $1.25. 
TABLE BEETS 
1 oz. to 60 ft. of row. 
Sow seeds as early in the spring as the ground can 
be worked. For a continuous supply make repeated 
sowings 3 to 4 weeks apart, allowing plenty of time for 
the last sowing to mature before frost. Sow seed in 
Loy 11% to 2 ft. apart and cover with 4% in. of fine 
soil. 
Early Wonder. 50 days. Earliest and best for forcing 
or home garden. Tops short. flesh dark red. Pkt., 
10c; 0z., 25c; 44 lb., 65c; 1 Ib., $1.50. 
Detroit Dark Red Selected. 55 days. Standard for 
home and market garden. Uniform globe-shaped. 
Pkt.. 10c; 0z., 25c; 14 Ib., 65c; 1 Ib.. $1.50. 
MANGEL BEET 
Used largely for winter feeding of your stock. Sow 
seed in early spring in rows 2 to 3 ft. apart; cover with 
V4 in. of soil. 
Mammoth Long Red. Oz., 15c:; 14 Ib., 50c; 1 Ib., $1.25. 
SWISS CHARD 
Rhubarb Chard. Bright crimson stalks, dark green, 
heavily crumpled leaves, easily grown, decorative as 
well as delicious. Large pkt., 10c; 16 oz., 20c; oz., 
BCs 
Lucullus. 60. days. 
thick midribs, tender and of good 
10c:; oz.. 20c; 44 Ib., 50c. 
Unex- 
Large leaves are wrinkled, with 
flavor. Large pkt., 

Tendergreen 
Stringless 
